I call them Republican Politics as usual .It is amazing how we need Environmental Impact studies where solar is concerned but not when there is drilling or Loging . To expect the EPA to give a rat's ass about anything other than allowing Cortporations is nieve . The Republicans put in Corporatists to head those agency designed to protect the public at large . Look at the Labor Department where Elaine Cho is really representing the AMA and Not Labor . Remember the guy involved in that mine disaster who warned the Mine Investigators that his buddy Mitch McConnel was sleeping with their boss (Ms Cho)

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How about time for impeachment?

Every afternoon I turn on the TV, one of these days that is what I'm going to be hearing about as the lead story. Then it will be THE story nonstop.

Let's get it going already, we don't want to miss it do we?

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Is there anything Bush/Cheney will do in their last days that will surprise you?

Is it only voting, the electoral college, the lame duck or the entire electoral process that doesnt work.
Lets attack Iran, too

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We don't need "departmental renaming", we need Executive Arrests.

The DOE just issued its largest ever solar contract for a solar farm, so it isn't a surprise that the big-oil cabal behind the Bush War Criminals are seeking to undermine, delay, defuse and/or confuse the only true energy answer of the future.

Solar Deserts are growing in clout around the globe against a the tide created by the Houston monopolists who've been fighting it since at least the 1970's. With Adolf Bush as their Crusader in Chief, they've managed to steer the US into further oil-dependency while simultaneously hijacking the international trade in this dirty resource, in an effort to squeeze the very last drops of manipulated plunder prior to the wide-spread "discovery" that we can replace all energy resources with a clean, constant, safe and permanent alternative.

California's commitment to install 100,000 solar roofs/year for the next ten years scratches the surface of this potential. Spain's recent installation of a single concentrated array to supply all the energy required 20-30,000 house village is another. The Trecers.net has built this potential into a global solution that will interconnect continents and their sunshine to the demand of the non-sunny continents, and every 12 hours or so they reverse, then combine the large supplies with localized roof-top and wind-farms for permanent energy.

Next step for Bush is to declare solar technology a form of "Inciting Terrorist Activities" and "Threatening the United States of Oil". Next step for us is declare Bush an "Unlawful Enemy Combatant" and waterboard him, Cheney, Rice, Yoo and others for all their information and connections to the Criminal Corporate Underworld for propping up destruction. We need that oil profit money after all to get started with our progressive future, right?

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I have to agree with the former comment. As a little girl (about 40 years ago), there was one house near us that had a windmill in its backyard. Houston has a constant sea breeze that blows at between 14 - 20 mph (if I remember correctly). At any rate, this family was able not only to get off the grid, but also to sell all their excess power back to the old H.L.&P. When I asked my father why we couldn't do the same thing, he told me that Houston had passed a height restriction on residential property that prevented new windmills from going up. If all the backyards on the coasts of our country would allow this old time technology, and there was an incentive for solar power, the grossly overpaid CEO's and upper level management, would no longer be able to sell their old $20/barrel oil for $140.

While it appears that Houston no longer has the psychedelic sunsets that were caused, in part, by the pollution of refineries, I wouldn't be surprised if all those businesses on the ship channel are still getting their property tax breaks in spite of the fact that those breaks were based on the premise that they would not pollute it.

The city was started by the fraud of the Allen brothers, if I'm remembering correctly, who sold a lot of swamp land to speculators. And, I know that fraud and corruption is still a huge part of its success. When the oil business tanked in the late 70's and early 80's, it effected the lives of almost all Houstonians. Office buildings sat empty, home foreclosures skyrocketed, and a lot of middle-management oil types found that their departments were no longer needed. There were A.R.M.s that had people upside-down on their mortgages (sound familiar?) and suicidal men who saw their retirement benefits disappear before their eyes. (My father suffered through two of those disappointments, and my husband was laid off while on vacation, two months before being fully vested in another oil based corporation). Many wells were simply capped off because it was going to cost more money to pump than jump off the project.

Now, Bush et.al. are telling us that offshore drilling, which can be an enormous cause of pollution, is the answer to all of our problems. I know that we want to keep our reserves so that we'll be the last nation left with oil in the ground, but surely there is someone somewhere in the government who realizes that by that time, the rest of the world won't be interested. Their scientists and governments will have found a replacement for this old technology.

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watch Bill Moyers, the journal on the internet where 2 conservations reveal that McCain is a Neo Con war monger. The program aired about 2 months ago

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The latest news is that this decision was reversed and they are letting these projects go ahead... There is one small success story and the birth of another industry...

http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/agreennetwork

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I can not image anything dumber than putting a stop to the use of solar power.

Except maybe this...

A lady got in trouble in a rich neighborhood around here because she used a clothesline to save energy.

So tacky! She was fined and clothesline ordered down.

Well, at this rate, no one will get serious about energy conservation and alternative fuels until the north pole is tropical.



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Why should any of this be a surprize?

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